The Dugdale Millions — page 249: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXV. COMPLICATIONS, Dicx’s startling theory, by which he connected the burglary at Springhill with the pretensions of Har- old Pierson to the Dugdale estates, had caused the possibility of what the contents of the tin box might have revealed to be lost sight of. It was Mr. Stanton who first recalled what might be lost in this theft of the box. Accordingly he wrote to Dick urging that steps be taken, if not to recover the box, which of course would be more desirable but naturally more difficult, to at least endeavor to ascer- tain what the contents consisted of. He suggested, as the only means he could think of, that Dick should go to Philadelphia to see Mrs. Jenkins. Dick had just returned from a visit to Captain Law- ton when he received this letter from Mr. Stanton. The detective had said that Bob, on parting with Dick on the day previous, had gone straightway to Orton Pierson’s house, where Ransom and Moore were awaiting him, and to which place Ransom had gone early in the morning carrying a large bundle. The detective further told Dick that, after a long stay, the three, Ransom, Moore, and Bob, had left at different times, and gone in different directions; that trace had been lost of Ransom and Bob, but that the officer fol- lowing Moore had tracked him to the Pennsylvania railroad station and saw him buy a ticket for Philadel- phia, when, having no instructions to leave the city, he had returned and made his report. mouar bundle e¢arried by Ransom,” said (Dick eagerly, ‘‘contained the boxes stolen from Springhill,’’ 239 Comicbookk<s C@ 5}